They will attend several Homecoming activities; ride in
the parade Saturday, Oct. 12; and be recognized during the Cowboys' football
game against New Mexico at 1:30 p.m.

Botts eschewed the chance to run the family’s ranch
outside of Riverton, but took his father’s advice and attended UW, where he was
involved in Mortar Board, Tau Beta Pi and the American Society of Civil
Engineers.

Upon graduation, Shell Oil hired him as a civil engineer.
Two weeks later, he married his “childhood sweetheart,” Shelley, moved to
Ventura, Calif., and started his 36-year career with that company. Botts
eventually led a team of 30,000 employees and contractors at 30 refineries and
chemical sites around the world.

By 1990, he was division operations manager, responsible
for onshore upstream operations in the western half of the U.S.; later, he
assumed responsibility for both engineering and operations as division production
manager.

In 1995, he was appointed treasurer of Shell Oil Co.
Three years later Botts moved to London, holding positions as U.K. gas director,
U.K. oil director and U.K. managing director. In 2003, he moved to the Netherlands
and became executive vice president for exploration and production, Europe. He
was named executive vice president of Global Manufacturing Royal Dutch Shell in
2009. He retired in 2012.

Now that Botts is retired from Shell Oil, he is living
full time in Wyoming and has turned his attention to UW's engineering program. In
2012, he was appointed by Gov. Matt Mead to the Wyoming Governor’s Energy,
Engineering, and STEM Integration Task Force for UW.

“The governor and the Legislature have a vision that is
really unique,” he says of the task to create a top-tier engineering school at
UW.

Drew is
owner and president of the Drew Auto Center, an award-winning
Ford-Volkswagen-Hyundai dealership in La Mesa, Calif. The oldest family-owned
dealership in San Diego County, Drew Auto Center sells new and used cars; rents
and leases vehicles; provides auto repair and service; does body repair and
painting; and sells parts and supplies.

Drew’s
father, Elmer, started Drew’s garage in 1927. After the local Ford dealership
in town folded during the Depression, Elmer was awarded a Ford franchise in
1934.

“I grew up
in the business because our house was behind the shop for a while, which was
very typical at that time,” Drew says.

During
college, Drew met Kay Klingaman, who would become his wife; and Alpha Tau Omega
fraternity brother Mike Sullivan, who would eventually become Wyoming’s
governor from 1987-1995.

“Consistent
throughout Joe’s life has been his creativity and enthusiasm, his work ethic
and integrity, and his natural salesmanship,” Sullivan says. “All of these
traits have obviously contributed to his lifetime success in business and
community.”

After
graduating from UW in 1963, Drew entered the Army. In 1965, upon his discharge,
Drew and his wife drove to California and he started working at the family
dealership the next day.

“What was
easy for me was selling and making business work,” Drew says. “So, that’s the
field that I chose.”

Drew was
named Time Magazine Dealer of the Year in 1988 and a UW College of Business
Distinguished Alumnus in 1997.

“It is a
humbling experience,” Drew says of being named a UW Distinguished Alumnus.
“When I think of all of the people who graduated from UW, I can hardly imagine
being nominated. It makes me blush to think about it.”

Geraud has served his alma mater, his state and his nation
in several capacities during a lengthy legal career.

After graduating from the UW College of Law at the top of
his class, Geraud returned to the university in 1955 as a faculty member. He
taught full time until 1969, becoming a full professor in 1962.

In 1964, he was appointed special assistant attorney general
for the UW Board of Trustees as an additional duty. His teaching duties ended
when he began service as vice president for student affairs. He continued to
serve as special assistant attorney general for the UW trustees until his
duties were changed in 1972 to university legal counsel, which he performed
until 1980, when he returned to full time-teaching in the College of Law.

He retired from the Navy with the rank of commander after 42
years of active and reserve service.

Upon retirement from UW, he returned to his hometown of
Riverton, where he served for a decade as a member of the Central Wyoming College
Foundation.

“I know the impact he has had on hundreds of attorneys, in
Wyoming and across the country, in their education and practices, especially in
the field of natural resource law,” says Wyoming Supreme Court Chief Justice
Marilyn Kite, who studied under Geraud. “His expertise in oil and gas, mining,
public lands and property law contributed to the UW College of Law’s reputation
as one of the leading natural resources law schools in the region and the
country.”

Meyer has
had a distinguished career, serving in the military, being elected to state
office and currently serving as vice president for Rocky Mountain Power in
Wyoming.

She grew up
in Nebraska and later moved to Centennial. Her late husband, Charles, had a
thriving dentistry practice in Laramie. Meyer earned education and accounting
degrees from UW; an MBA in international business from Denver’s Regis
University; and a master’s degree in national resources strategy from National
Defense University in Washington D.C.

She always
had an interest in the military and enlisted as an airman and officer in the
Wyoming Air National Guard. Since entering the military in 1974, Meyer has had
many assignments. She attained the rank of full colonel in 2004 and served as
153rd mission support group commander from 2001-2007.

Meyer is a
combat veteran deployed in support of Operation Desert Storm, Operation Provide
Comfort and Operation Enduring Freedom. She retired in 2007.

In her next
phase of her career, Meyer was elected Wyoming state auditor from 2007-11, and
later ran for governor after her first term expired.

“Rita’s
public service tenure is diverse and admirable, and she is certainly worthy of
this recognition. As a public official, she spoke to groups throughout the
state, although she was not required to do so,” says Nancy Freudenthal, former
Wyoming first lady and a United States district judge. “I particularly
appreciated her powerful message of giving back to our communities,
volunteerism and public service. Her resume shows she walks her talk, an
attribute we in Wyoming respect and appreciate.”

She has
served on several UW boards and has been active in her community.